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Comment by brionl

Bleayearghhh!

Comment by Angurn

Very annoying quest the leeches despawn rather quickly and if you kill the kodo to fast the leeches do not even bother spawning. This and some other quests is making me hate the new desolace as much as the old desolace

Comment by sgolges

Comment by henslock8

Use the Quest Item on the Thunder Lizards and then kill them. Do not kill them too fast.After the Thunder Lizards die, a Leech will spawn beneath the corpse and it can be looted.

Comment by koac

The leeches tend to run away fast after they spawned. So look around when you're done with the lizards!

Comment by zPolarBear

Thanks to sgolges and henslock8 I was able to do this quest finally! :-)

--The leeches do scurry, but I never had them run more than a few yards away and stop or turn around. --Skinning can help clear the Lizard to you can get to the leech underneath.

I tried taking two Lizards down at once, casting the bottle on each in turn to start...that is when I would get a 'dead' leech, or one that I could not loot. So, doing two at once may not always work.

Speed may have something to do with it, but I could not get it to be consistent; some, I took down quickly and the leech was there...go figure.(doing quest at Lvl 40 as Combat Rogue, SinisterStrike, Slice n Dice, then spam SinisterStrike; if that gives you an idea of the speed of take down.)

Comment by Bulsi

Dont know whether its coincidence or not, but killing them without leaving a debuff on the lizard has given me a 100% drop rate

Comment by Aletto

"The Cenarion Circle has worked hard to restore life to Desolace.

There are some kodo nearby that seem to be rejuvenated with newfound life!

...now throw these blood-sucking parasites onto the kodo, then slaughter the beasts."

Comment by Cene

Quests like this is what still keep Desolace so desolate...

Avoid using any AoE attacks when killing the infested kodos. The leeches are targetable and have only 42 life; they'll die to your AoE attacks if they continue after the kodo has died. Also they seem to despawn as soon as another leech spawns, so you can only do one kodo at a time.

Comment by yarko

Quests like this is what still keep Desolace so desolate...

Blizzard made Desolace 1000 times more fun and interesting. I can't believe people are complaining about it, especially this super easy quest. :(

Comment by cupzula

Use the bottle, kill the lizard, don't kill the leech just loot it as it crawls around.

Comment by chunli

the leech is trapped under the lizzard's body .. zzz

Comment by Arjayemm

I have to agree with the people complaining about this quest. I had no problem getting leeches to spawn - just use the bottle before killing the kodo - but actually targeting the leech so that the "loot bag" symbol would appear was a nightmare. I'm a skinner so looting then skinning the kodo meant the leech could not hide within the kodo's corpse thankfully but the leech seemed to have a tiny target area where the loot symbol would appear. I eventually resorted to angling the camera so it was looking straight down and zooming in when targeting the "loot bag" became a lot easier although this made chasing the kodos a bit difficult. I suppose you could keep changing camera angle and zoom although this might lead to some dodgy moments with other mobs attacking while you're doing that (I did this area at lvl 85 for "Loremaster" so it was not a problem but could be if you're doing it at the proper level) and if you're not a skinner the kodo corpses could well be a problem. All things considered it's a good idea but poorly executed and badly needs tweaking to solve the problems.

Comment by dogmeat55

I was a level 33 Warlock-Demonic doing this quest it was easy and not a rush-job. So the kodo die on the leach. I walked the length of it and the leach moved, even follow me out from under the dead kodo. Click on it and got the necessary credit. One thing I did different was only used the wand (Fire) then my Felguard did the rest, I got credit for it. The only time I did not, was the lazy flowers that seem to go out of their way to engage my fel-guard or me. I always killed the lazy flowers first, just to cut down on interference form them. Level-up.

Comment by Pypode

The leeches now last about a minute and dont go too far from the corpse.

Comment by Kouzoulos

It's not that hard. Just cast the "bottle of leeches" spell, and when you kill Kodo, the blood filled leech spawns. Just right-click it and it's done. Way to go.

Comment by Junyed

I haven't done this quest, but sometimes turning on nameplates for friendly/hostile mobs will help in collecting them during these types of quests. Hit CTRL-V to enable all nameplates.

Comment by Midgetpower

Comment by DrAwkward

As zPolarBear said if you kill 2 Rejuvenated thunder lizards at once the 2 leeches are lootable but you will not receive credit for them. Another issue I had a few times was the leech was spawned upon the Lizards death but he was killable but not lootable, the cursor was a dagger instead of a bag.

Comment by kimyushin

C'mon now. Remember. Patience, discipline.Throw the infestation bottle at them first, then you can kill them as fast in any way you want. Then catch the squiggly leech.Yeah, you would think to infest the corpse but, these are leeches, not maggots, although they look exactly like maggots, and nothing at all like leeches.

Comment by Rocquey

If you are a shaman, don't use totems to help kill the kodo. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't loot the leeches (got the knife icon), so I tried killing the kodo without totems. No problem after that.

Comment by jam5158

I killed like 20-30 and only got 3 leeches so off to Wowhead I go because I was livid with this drop rate. But your right, DON'T KILL THEM TOO FAST or no leech will drop and when they do half the stupid time they crawl back under the body making it impossible to get them. One of the MOST irritating quests I have done in a long time.

Comment by Zamoray

Remember, you must use the Bottle of Leeches (given to you by Thressa when you accept the quest), or the Blood-Filled Leeches will not appear. Just killing Rejuvinated Thunder Lizards does not spawn the leeches. First throw the Bottle of Leeches on a Rejuvinated Thunder Lizard, kill the Lizard, and a Blood-Filled Leech will crawl out of the corpse. Then just click on the Leech to add it to your inventory until you have ten Leeches. No Leech Infestation with Bottle of Leeches... no Blood-Filled Leeches.

Comment by mudplayerx

Don't use abilities that stun or prevent the use of abilities. This will prevent the thunder lizard from summoning the leech you need after it dies. Killing the thunder lizards quickly makes no difference in them summoning the leech.

One ability I've found that prevents the leeches from being summoned 100% of the time is the monk's fist of fury, so don't use it.

Comment by Gymlea

Target the Rejuvenated Thunder Lizard, click on the Bottle of Leeches you were given, kill the Thunder Lizard, and a leech will spawn and crawl out from the corpse. Click on the leech. Caution, AOE can kill the leech which is a level 1 beast.

Comment by Gymlea

Target the Rejuvenated Thunder Lizard, click on the Bottle of Leeches you were given, kill the Thunder Lizard, and a leech will spawn and crawl out from the corpse. Click on the leech. Caution, AOE can kill the leech which is a level 1 beast.